Grade every teaching pitch for boldness before it gets watered down to the safe middle
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Build teams where people speak up without fear of punishment, ridicule, or career damage.
The Most Powerful Predictor of Team Success · Rafael Chiuzi
Leverage sensitivity and solitude as engines for creative breakthrough
Susan Cain — How to Overcome Fear and Embrace Creativity | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast) · Susan Cain
Close the gap between organizational values and daily practices to re-engage teams
Daring Greatly · Brené Brown
Transform sensitivity and melancholy into your most powerful creative fuel
Susan Cain — How to Overcome Fear and Embrace Creativity | The Tim Ferriss Show · Susan Cain
Identify when companies use charm and ideology to avoid accountability
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Manipulate Our Emotions · Scott Galloway
Two distinct paths to disruptive growth: compete against nonconsumption or attack overserved customers at the bottom
The Innovator's Solution · Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
Shape your innovation into a disruption so incumbents are motivated to flee rather than fight
The Innovator's Solution · Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
Separate innovation teams from franchise teams so fragile, radical ideas can survive long enough to prove their worth
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries · Safi Bahcall
Align processes, structure, and culture around the customer's job
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice · Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan
Balance incremental improvements with breakthrough reinvention
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) · Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith
A diagnostic tool to determine whether a new technology will topple industry leaders
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail · Clayton M. Christensen
Harness the force of customer control by embedding disruptive projects where they matter
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail · Clayton M. Christensen
Embrace severe limitations to unlock breakthrough solutions
Change by Design · Tim Brown
Let the athletes who use your product drive every innovation cycle
Shoe Dog · Phil Knight
Choose rivals who make you better, not enemies who make you bitter
The Infinite Game · Simon Sinek